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Technology for Emerging Markets

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Kahani: Visual Storytelling

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Ideas: Language technologies for everyone with Kalika Bali

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Keynote: Building Globally Equitable AI

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Digital Labor: Project Karya

Developing a smartphone-based paid crowdsourcing platform that offers local-language digital work and is accessible to people in rural communities

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Performing Gender, Doing Politics: Social Media and Women Election Workers in Kerala and Tamil Nadu

Drupa Dinnie Charles, Azhagu Meena, Simiran Lalvani, Syeda Zainab Akbar, Divya Siddarth, Joyojeet Pal

ICTD 2020 | June 2020

Editor(s): Carleen Maitland, Monica Villavicencio Cabezas

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Digital Divine: Technology use by Indian Spiritual Sects

Meena Azhagu, Varuni Bhatia, Joyojeet Pal

ICTD 2020 | June 2020

Editor(s): Carleen Maitland, Monica Villavicencio Cabezas

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From Greetings to Corruption: Politicians, Political Parties, and Tweeting in India

Lia Bozarth, Anmol Panda, Ceren Budak, Joyojeet Pal

ICTD 2020 | June 2020

Editor(s): Carleen Maitland, Monica Villavicencio Cabezas

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Engaging the Crowd: Social Movement Building via Online Bystander Mobilization

Divya Siddarth, Joyojeet Pal

ICTD 2020 | June 2020

Editor(s): Carleen Maitland, Monica Villavicencio Cabezas

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Affording Extremes: Incivility, Social Media and Democracy in the Indian Context

Anmol Panda, Sunandan Chakraborty, Noopur Raval, Han Zhang, Mugdha Mohapatra, Joyojeet Pal

ICTD 2020 | June 2020

Editor(s): Carleen Maitland, Monica Villavicencio Cabezas

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Modulo: Drive-by Sensing at City-scale on the Cheap

Dhruv Agarwal, Srinivasan Iyengar, Swami Manohar, Eash Sharma, Ashish Raj, Aadithya Hatwar

COMPASS 2020 | June 2020

Best Paper Award

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Twitter and political culture: Short text embeddings as a window into political fragmentation

Amar Budhiraja, Joyojeet Pal

COMPASS | June 2020

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Using Mobile Airtime Credits to Incentivize Learning, Sharing and Survey Response: Experiences from the Field

Devansh Mehta, Ramaravind K. Mothilal, Alok Sharma, Bill Thies, Amit Sharma

ACM COMPASS: Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies | June 2020

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Social Media and Society

Social science research into the impacts of digital technologies on society, politics, and culture in India